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Reminds me of when I started using i3wm. Nord theme is excessively popular and thats what I used.
Later started using pywal.

I like the idea of the profile pic in neofetch/screenfetch. Is that a hack within those or is it something that involves kitty? If I can get that working with xfce4-terminal that would be cool :grin:

Not a hack - just a config option (and provision of a suitable pic). xfce4-terminal can handle it, btw - only quirk seems to be that the pic disappears after further clicks…

Check out ~/.config/neofetch/config.conf noting #image_backend and #image_source

I usually put the image source in with the config.conf in the neofetch dir for ease of finding it!

Yeah I used the term ā€œhackā€ rather loosely there! Of course it’s configs really. Thanks for directing me to the relevant file, saves me a search. I think putting image sources in the right place is a good clean way to run a system, rather than some location in a user’s Picture folder, that’s just messy!

You think maybe I learned that the hard way? It’s a possibility… :grin:

Btw - here’s a screenshot from loading a Garuda icon I liked in its neofetch…

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Yeah like trying to set up a background image in LightDM for instance? It won’t (obviously) accept an image in user space because it’s before it (learnt that one back in the day) :laughing:

Endeavour BSPWM with some custom dotfiles.

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App launcher = Rofi
Terminal emulator = Terminator
Visible in terminator = Cava & Neofetch.
File manager = Thunar
Music player = Tauon Music Box
Browser = Librewolf
Bottom bar = Polybar with a few custom modules.
Icon pack = Numix, modified by the numix-folders package.
Third screenshot is Spotify with a modified version of the Spicetify theme ā€˜Dribbblr’.

First time with a tiling WM for me, thought it’d take a while to adapt and perhaps be a bit of a nuisance on a desktop, but I quite like it.

It looks quite usable. I’ve not heard of that music player before, I use Deadbeef with my own configs. The only thing that stops me using a tiling WM is the limited screen space for a browser. It seems far too small, although I suppose it is possible to run it fullscreen? For everything else it seems fine. I use a lot of keyboard shortcuts anyway with a stacking WM or a full DE, it wouldn’t be hard to adjust.

It is extremely customizable and comes with a variety of layouts out of the box.

Apps will adapt to the available screen space, if you have nothing but a browser open it’ll take up the entire screen. You can also adjust the size of each window yourself, and launch an application in full screen with a simple keybind.

What about workspaces, are they available? I’m using Fluxbox and I still have those available so I just jump between them when I need to. It’s not that much different to a DE really, just simpler and faster.

BSPWM comes with 10 workspaces (I think) out of the box. You can reduce/add workspaces to fit your needs. In the screenshot above I have three (see boxes in the middle of the bottom bar). You can send apps to each workspace with a keybind of your choice.

Ah that’s good to know. In that case I’d just have a browser fullscreen in one workspace and the other stuff normally takes up less room anyway, unless it’s Gimp or something like that. Keybinds are fine. I may try i3 first but I’m undecided so far. Thanks for the info!

That’s why I have dedicated workspaces for everything (or tags as they are called in dwm). Firefox has it’s own one and runs fullscreen. Everything else I uses opens on other tags.

Yeah that’s how I run things. Browser on one, file manager on another, text editor on another etc etc. I find that 4 workspaces is enough for my needs but of course it depends on the individual.

The reason why i choose kitty is because for some reason w3m-img is not rendering properly, i can ā€œlooping imageā€ in neofetch setting but i don’t seem it worth for that. I heard kitty hsve their own image preview so i immediately download and start using it.

It’s not just about the image preview, but idk why i like kitty is because it’s more simplistic and not too much needed gui settings like xfce-terminal(?).

But if you want to, you can either download kitty or enable ā€œlooping imageā€ in the neofetch config (it should be around ~/.config/neofetch/config.conf

I like nord not because popular, i like it because the color scheme, it’s not hurting my eyes the the color is really fitting with the background and i3 bar.

bspwm nord theme

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Nice wallpaper, looks a lot like my setup, but without microphone and +1 laptop and midi-controller :upside_down_face:

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xmonad with polybar

this time was not easy
it has taken me 4 hours to put it together
but I learn something new every time

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